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		<title>The Science of Making Up Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Teachers had no problems.  So.  When there were problems, it must because of:  Bad Teachers.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/03/nclb-science-of-making-up-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Read Across to Reach Across</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Celebrate NEA's Read Across America anyway you can.  Read with a child.
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		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/02/read-across-america-to-reach-across/</link>
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		<title>March to the Census</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a teacher.  I know what counts.  And in the month of March, what counts - literally - is the Census.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/02/march-to-the-census/</link>
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		<title>State of the Hopeful Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend said to me, “I missed  the President’s speech.  What’d he say?  Give me hope.”
Ok.
He talked a lot about jobs.
She said, “Jobs?  Give me hope about schools!”
I reminded her that he gave us a down-payment on his promise to make education a priority by not only including jobs protection in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/state-of-the-hopeful-union/</link>
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		<title>Tiny Bubbles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They’re the kids who didn’t quite hit the cut score on the No Child Left tests the previous year. Or those that just barely hit it. The goal was to get off the Adequate Yearly Progress Shame List where her school had been placed because not enough of their students had hit the cut score]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/tiny-bubbles/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back those many years ago, our school district decided not to close for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  Instead, the board encouraged schools to incorporate appropriate activities into the school day.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/celebrating-martin-luther-king-jr-day/</link>
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		<title>Did You Do It On Purpose?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose we’re trying to achieve in a public school?  As a Utah teacher, I can stretch a dollar until you can see through it.  Our state legislature has achieved its purpose:  Spend as little as possible on public schools.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/did-you-do-it-on-purpose/</link>
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		<title>Closing What Gaps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently honored to speak into a microphone in a Congressional hearing room and give my opinions about something called The Achievement Gap.
It is a heady thing to be asked to give your opinion.  Into a microphone.  With people taking notes.  In seven minutes.  Or less.
I am not a researcher. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/01/closing-what-gaps/</link>
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		<title>The First Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspected it in my 6th grade class when the neighborhood was beginning to change faces and change accents.  I saw it when sitting next to Brian and Jason and Cindy were Alfredo and Marcos and Fabiola]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2009/11/the-first-language/</link>
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		<title>ESP – Extraordinary Special Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are proud professionals. So I want to congratulate the guy with the big office and the big title, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, for doing what no other Secretary of Education has done before him. On his listening tour of America’s schools where he has gathered groups of teachers and groups of school board members and groups of administrators, he insisted on a special gathering of Education Support Professionals to hear what they had to say.]]></description>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2009/11/esp-%e2%80%93-extraordinary-special-power/</link>
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